{"id":1263,"date":"2022-02-28T06:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2022-02-27T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T23:18:29","slug":"the-life-of-clara-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/the-life-of-clara-barton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Clara Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lifeclarabarton-595x860.jpg?resize=525%2C759&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"759\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Life of Clara Barton<\/em><br \/>\nby Gillia M. Olson (Author)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3BXFasB\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781681525945?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> This timeline biography explores Clara Barton&#8217;s incredible life as a humanitarian. Chapter book readers will learn about Barton&#8217;s careers as a teacher and nurse, and how caring for wounded Civil War soldiers inspired her to create the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> When the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) began, Clara wanted to help. She brought soldiers food, water, and other supplies. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life of Clara Barton by Gillia M. Olson (Author) @ Amazon | IndieBound Booktalk: This timeline biography explores Clara Barton&#8217;s incredible life as a humanitarian. Chapter book readers will learn about Barton&#8217;s careers as a teacher and nurse, and how caring for wounded Civil War soldiers inspired her to create the American Red Cross. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/the-life-of-clara-barton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Life of Clara Barton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-kn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/what-do-you-do-with-a-voice-like-that\/","url_meta":{"origin":1263,"position":0},"title":"What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?","author":"@roberta3","date":"October 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's take a look at the new picture book biography, What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? 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